Officials probe plane crash in Bangkok, as pilot’s body claimed
THE head of a Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) committee probing the crash of a plane in Bangkok on Monday, revealed Tuesday that the small aircraft didn’t have a ‘black box’ to record flight data prior to the crash.
It was also reported that the people onboard were employees of Rabbit Wings Airways, not charter customers.
The pilot was killed in the crash and three others – a co-pilot, machinist and company employee – were injured. A woman living in Nong Chok district was also slightly injured.
Metropolitan Police Area 3 deputy commander Pol Colonel Kitpat Pengrung, DCA committee head Veena Nusadin and Rabbit Wings personnel inspected the crash site in Lam Phak Chee sub-district Tuesday.
DCA official Veena said such aircraft did not have a ‘black box’, so the team did related measuring at the scene such as the height of tree branches that were hit by the plane’s wings. They also checked inside the 10-year-old Piper Chieftain HS-FGB aircraft’s engine in a bid to determine the cause of the crash.
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